Lord William Bentinck, who served as Governor- General of Bengal (1828-1835) and later the first Governor-General of British India (1833-1835), is credited with the abolition of Sati. Sati was declared illegal and punishable by courts of law by Regulation XVII of 1829.
Who was the Governor General during the annulment of ‘Sati’?
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